Shadow policing minister Louise Haigh, who requested the information, said the amount was "pitiful and insulting".

She added: "Concentrix walked off the job with £32million of taxpayers' money in their pockets.

"Yet now we learn that the average amount people can expect in compensation is less than £15. That's a pitiful amount and it is simply insulting to the victims.

"The company caused real damage to people's lives and was proven to be wrong in 87 per cent of cases that went to appeal.

"I can't think of many cases where such terrible failure has been rewarded so well and in such stark contrast to the treatment of the victims.

Mhairi Black said the Concentrix scheme was an "utter shambles from start to finish" (Image: GETTY)

"The Concentrix and Carillion scandals have shown that too often the bosses walk off with a pay-out while we pay for their mistakes, and the victims are left struggling.

"Tory privatisation of our public services has been a disaster, and it's about time ministers started learning the lessons."

Speaking about the issue last year when the payments scandal came to light the SNP ’s Mhairi Black, who sits on the Commons work and pensions committee, said: “The Concentrix scheme was an utter shambles from start to finish.

“The Tories must rethink their social security strategy and start putting people first before even more of society’s most vulnerable are left as victims of the callous Department for Work and Pensions.”

It was believed that hard-up families stood to win back £138million of tax credit benefits in the wake of the scandal.

Theresa May’s Government revealed last February that 23,000 claimants were to have their cases reviewed.

The Daily Record interviewed one Motherwell mum who was a victim of Concentrix.

Lorelle Banks had her benefits stopped after being accused of being in a relationship – with her soldier brother.

Lorelle Banks and her son Ethan after their tax credits were stopped without warning (Image: Mark Anderson)

The single mum had her tax credits stopped without warning because her brother was listed as living at her address in Motherwell.

She received a letter from Concentrix saying there had been a change in her circumstances and her benefits would be amended. Her £62-a-week payments stopped straight away.

The mum struggled to keep up with bills during the wrangle and her money was only reinstated after she sent the firm paperwork proving that her brother Gary was not her partner.

HMRC chiefs even told her to pay back almost £1400 she had already received.